Aaaaaaaaand he’s gone

CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO.

Yeah, it’s definitely an open question if they are being honest for honesty’s sake or just trying to get ahead of people realising that the game is slop-infested in obvious ways.

Assuming the first, the number is definitely based on vibes, but 0.1% of say ten million lines of code is still a lot of code, and the way LLMs have been shoved into every nook and cranny of the major IDEs, demanding proof of zero tokens spent during development puts enterprise devs in a weird spot, especially with stack overflow all but defunct and the various tool vendors increasingly assuming you’ll be using them in LLM-first dev scenarios and skimping on providing in-depth guidelines, or slopping them out.

It sucks.

Still, really not beating the cult allegations.

Mr. Aue concluded that an employee about to begin cancer treatment could not provide the “exclusive and energetic focus” the Foundation was demanding of every employee, and that retaining her, with the time away from work and adjustments her treatment would require, was inconsistent with the “right mix of people” he intended to assemble.

Smart contracts was an insanely terrible idea, let’s make database triggers but super complex and unchangeable so if there’s a bug/loophole you can’t fix it, oops, you lost all your money, no backsies.

Smart contracts is what made DAOs possible and kicked the scam era of cryptocurrency into high gear.

Developers House House told Aftermath via email that “LLMs were used sparingly by House House to help work through difficult technical challenges and bugs”, and that they “estimate that well under 0.1% of Big Walk’s code had anything to do with this usage”. They also stress that “generative AI was not used in any other context when making the game”.

Not to get all doctorow on this, but I generally don’t think we should concede this approach to using LLMs to the yooooooo I just vibecoded an FIFA 2027 cloen for android watch WITH MY DICK!!!11!! people.

If/when a time comes when genAI isn’t actively ruining everything and doesn’t need all the RAM and hard drive space in the world to be useful, using it like that seems a far cry better than even what torvalds is currently doing.

It’s all about that new METR data.

Yeah, they seem to have moved on from multiplying sufficiently large matrixes is magic to thinking it’s actually the code writing that’ll get mystical any time now.

Total System Failure: U.S. Government Networks Will Need To Be Torched And Rebuilt

Interesting if you want a rundown of US gov IT security fuckups, so far, in light of nvidia’s Jansen being recently revealed to have been compromised by Chinese intelligence.

I’ve noted repeatedly in my writing that the Trump administration’s cybersecurity policy has been indistinguishable from a foreign attack.

Still illegal though, especially if you’re doing it in cahoots with the president.

First of all straight up telling an employee that we don’t like your cancer so we’re letting you go is just unfathomable, those people are already living in an Ancapistan of their own mind.

Employees objected to the imagery as well. Board member and Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang wrote that she “did not support applying the Milady aesthetic to a 1000-year vision mandate.” Mr. Buterin’s answer was that “the controversialness of those aesthetics is itself part of the point.”

What exactly is the point, Vitalik, would you please spell it out for the rest of us plebs?

Like it’s either making sure the company culture is compatible with freeze-peach neoreaction because you are planning to do, or have done and it’s about to be revealed, unhinged shit, or you’re just grooming people into learned helplessness because cult bullshit in the workplace these days gets you trillion dollar valuations.

Or maybe you are twelve and still think the vaunted third way/The Greater Good is 4chan coded libertarianism.

All the stuff about the edginess and the aesthetics being the point really brings to mind the reasoning behind the if you had to fuck a cow would you rather it were dead first sign up question in that aella bootcamp.

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I can see his remorse and genuine care for his family which makes me feel a bit sad.

I can barely imagine extending such good will to a family member if they willingly cheated, let alone a trillion dollar company CEO I’ve never met.

Parasocial tendencies are weird.

The image doesn’t seem to link to anything.

so uhh I take it thats not very good news for Nvidia

Depends on if there’s anyone left in the US govt who’d be interested in upholding all that stuff about not exporting top tier AI server components to geopolitical rivals I’d guess.

Maybe they’ll make an example of him to show what happens if you run competing grifts without cutting the presidential family in.

ECI is supposed to be some sort of aggregate benchmark measurement, and AECI the same except the A is for Anthropic?

I am beginning to like the cut of this publications jib.

https://defector.com/there-is-no-place-in-a-functional-society-for-elon-musk

The federal government is in tatters, the judiciary seeded with sneering MAGA goons like bear traps on a forest floor, the executive branch a metastatic growth of varyingly murderous criminal enterprises in unholy union with a psychotic, apocalyptic tech industry in suicide-cult thrall to bumbling chatbots.

That’s interesting, thanks! Not exactly sure where the dc loans fit in the benefits vs contributions scheme, but I guess it’s important context to keep in mind if reading further into this.

Ιt could have been part of a larger thing where it made sense to want to keep evidence of the shutdown in the chat context.

It’s not like they design or promote these things in any way that encourages user initiative, can’t have full cognitive surrender if the user is running system commands on the side.

Presumably you still need to believe that these are the specific loans that you are least likely to see a return on though, otherwise why get rid of them?

The way the bubble pops will probably be a bunch of normal things happening, except cumulatively they cause investors to shy away from further bankrolling this mess and someone important won’t have enough money at some crucial point. It certainly won’t be sam altman laughing maniacally and dissolving into a mound of scurrying cockroaches.

The comment got so downvoted reddit now autocollapses it when you open the page. /r/BetterOffline posters seem to be good people:

Icy-Recognition-7453 wrote

My brother in Christ, it is dreamed-up rubbish. It comes from an offshoot of EA/Rationalist thinking where the foundational documents are Terminator 3 and a Harry Potter fanfic written by an “AI researcher” who never went to high school. The pay-off of the “good” scenario is you get to live as an emulated human on AI God’s hard drive.